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Lords division · 9 Jun 2009 · No. 1

Business Rate Supplements Bill

Lord Bates moved amendment 43, in clause 29, page 19, line 10, at end to insert: “( ) A statutory instrument containing regulations under this Act may not impose on a ratepayer retrospective liability to pay a BRS without error or default on the part of a ratepayer.” The House divided:

The Contents have it

Majority 60

Contents: 184 Not Contents: 124

At a glance The Contents won by a margin of 60 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it lost.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 87
Crossbench 44
Liberal Democrat 38
Non-affiliated 8
Independent Ulster Unionist 1
Bishops 1
Independent Labour 1
Democratic Unionist Party 1
Conservative Independent 1
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Labour 1

Not Contents

Labour 105
Non-affiliated 12
Crossbench 7

The party breakdowns are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.

Peers attend divisions ad hoc, so there is no did-not-vote list. Tellers are counted in the Content and Not Content totals, unlike in the Commons.

Tellers: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Content), Lord Tope (Content), Lord Bassam of Brighton (Not Content), Lord Tunnicliffe (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (182)

Not Contents (122)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.